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Taking an ambulance to the ER does not ensure that you will be seen faster. A decent chunk of ambulance patients go right out to the lobby to wait like everyone else because everyone is triaged based on their illness or injury, not their mode of transportation.

Loading animations on websites and some apps that give you a percentage and messages about what's going on are usually faked with animations. The frontend for things like that usually just puts fake messages and animations because it's not easy to track the stages of complex steps happening on the backend. It's possible in some cases but I don't think I have ever seen a real working version of a loader like that in my 15 years of experience.

Sysadmins have no idea what they are doing, we're just one step ahead of the rest of you at googling stuff.

It is virtually impossible to remove yourself from advertiser's rolls.

Thanks to the new CPRA regulation, you can ask companies to delete everything they know about you. Great!

Except that the way the law is written, that often includes deleting the fact that you asked to have your data removed. So the next time they get your data from a broker, (or the next time a broker gets your data), you're right back at square one.

In theory, if you managed to send simultaneous requests to every company that's holding your data, you could wipe the slate clean...until the next time you used a website.

There are so many data sets out there that we are all a part of. And if your data is in just a single one that didn't get wiped, everyone will end up with it again as a matter of course.

Manufacturing here. We dont have a trained QC person looking at our units before sending them to the customer. Its just some guy that checks physical dimensions. We have electronics that comes in for RMA and never gets retested on its way out. Most of our customers dont install the pieces for months so the process control gets muddied by time. Literally everyone in our company knows this. We just got our ISO 9000 cert anyway, because no one really cares about doing things right. We just put untested parts in shit and cross our fingers.

Not every "smart" software solution is smart nor is every "AI powered" software having AI.

After the staff are done drinking coffee for the night, we only brew decaf. If you want caffeinated coffee close to closing time at a restaurant, ask for an Americano or other espresso drink.

For those in the US: no medical office dealing with insurance has a clue what they're doing. Why can't you ever "shop around" and get a price for your procedure? Because nobody really knows the price until they submit the claim. It's basically impossible for a human to keep track of the policies that change daily across dozens of insurance providers along with the hugely complicated calculations needed to get a price. And that's before they have software try to rearrange your claim to get the most money possible from insurance companies. And good luck figuring any of this out yourself; even if you manage to track down the policy data, it's written completely in medical insurance jargon and might even leave some room for interpretation.

Basically, even with the insane amount of work medical coders (people who process and interpret medical claims and policies) do to try and stay on top of it all, at the end of the day, you have to just submit the claim to a black hole and hope that it gets accepted. The patient's cost is whatever it spits out.

Also, dozens of doctors across the US get fired, banned from practice in their state, or have their licenses revoked every month. Some of them are unfortunate, like doctors being forced into retirement due to old age or physical inability to do their job, but many others get in trouble for practicing without a license, sexual harassment/assault, and, of course, prescription drug abuse. This data is all publicly accessible, but being on atrociously designed and maintained government websites, it's nearly impossible to keep track of who's in trouble without paying for third party software to do it for you. If you don't happen to catch it, it's pretty easy for a medical provider to move a few states over and set up shop like nothing happened.

Edit: Oh yeah, our company was very serious about HIPAA training and treated patient data with extreme caution. Some offices... really didn't. It got to the point where we'd straight up have to reject ticket requests for having identifying information. Our ticketing system was secure on our end, no telling what was going on outside of it.

As a side note, for the trans people out there, don't accept that you have to be misgendered on your medical records without a bit of a fuss. There's special modifiers that specifically override restrictions on sex-based medical procedures when your reported gender doesn't match their requirements. Unfortunately, whether your provider knows about or uses them is a bit of a toss-up.

On a brighter note, as stupid as it is that every single diagnosis has to be codified specifically for the insurance industry, there are some funny codes in there.

Some favorites:

• Bitten by a dolphin (specifically the first time. There's different codes for a second bite and any more after)
• The weirdly specific set of codes for various injuries on different watercraft
• Of course, something stuck up your ass

Now there's a new standard coming into effect, ICD11. The biggest complaint with ICD10 was the overly specific codes they had to keep track of. They did change things so that you didn't have a completely different code for every single type of, say, dolphin injury, but they did add many more animals.

Teacher - school districts are so afraid of getting sued that unless a kid is physically assaulting another student we have absolutely nothing we can do about it (even then, no guarantees). If your kid goes to a public school, all of your kids classes have one or two students that are allowed to do essentially whatever they want with no consequences.

Cell phone addiction is also huge. A lot of the “learning loss” being blamed on Covid is in part just the fact that students spend class watching TikTok’s or bullying each other in group chats. Don’t fucking text your kid during class. Vaping is as predominant as smoking was in the 80s.

I am a researcher studying diseases. You have no idea how many mice get killed without generating any data. There's a rule in place whenever you want to work with animals that you need to plan ahead and only use as few animals as you need to get the data that you're looking for. But things in research basically never happen according to plan. It could be due to a variety of factors: unexpected failures, overlooked factors, technical errors, or just simple negligence when performing an experiment. A lot of data and samples obtained from killed mice are discarded for one or more of the above reasons.

I get that mouse experiments are important to prove that our findings can translate to actual living animals, but I personally will not touch a mouse because, frankly, the "useful data per mouse" ratio is way too low for me to justify using mice.